Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of experience supporting electric utility operations, control centers, or grid technology programs.
- Robust understanding of transmission and distribution operations, including switching, outage response, restoration, equipment loading, and voltage management.
- Hands on experience with GE ETERRA GMS and/or EMS in production utility environments.
- Experience working across OT and IT systems such as EMS, SCADA, DMS/ADMS, OMS, GIS, AMI, asset management, historians, DER platforms, or market systems.
- Ability to communicate effectively with operators, engineers, IT/OT teams, and leadership stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities Grid Operations &
- Control Center Expertise
- Act as a trusted subject matter expert for transmission and distribution operations, including real time grid monitoring, switching activities, outage coordination, restoration planning, and control room procedures.
- Provide practical insight into how operators manage voltage conditions, equipment loading, alarms, contingencies, and coordination with neighboring utilities and market operators.
Operational
Systems &
- Data Assessment
- Evaluate operational and enterprise systems across EMS, GMS, SCADA, DMS/ADMS, OMS, historians, asset platforms, market systems, and field technologies.
- Identify where system boundaries, data latency, or organizational handoffs limit operational awareness or delay effective decision making. AI &
- Advanced Analytics Use Case Development
- Identify operational scenarios where AI and advanced analytics can support grid operations, including:
o Alarm prioritization and reduction of nuisance alarms o Detection of abnormal grid behavior o Correlation of events across transmission, distribution, and field systems o Improved awareness during outages, restorations, and abnormal operating conditions o Visibility into emerging asset and reliability risks Architecture &
- Data Strategy Collaboration
- Work with operations, OT, IT, and data teams to define secure and reliable data sharing patterns that support near real time operational insight without disrupting control system integrity.
- Translate operational requirements into analytics and AI needs, including data quality expectations, contextual tagging, event streams, model inputs, operator review points, and explainability considerations. GE ETERRA GMS / EMS Advisory
- Provide guidance on how GE ETERRA GMS and EMS are typically configured and used within utility control centers.
- Advise on integration touchpoints, operational workflows, and data considerations relevant to reliability monitoring, visualization, analysis, and control functions. Roadmap &
- Compliance Alignment
- Contribute to long term planning for control center and situational awareness modernization.
- Ensure all recommended approaches align with established utility operating practices and applicable reliability and regulatory expectations, including NERC and FERC standards.
Preferred
Qualifications
- Experience supporting grid modernization or control center transformation initiatives.
- Familiarity with renewable integration challenges, contingency analysis, state estimation, or grid reliability analysis.
- Exposure to AI platforms, advanced analytics, edge computing, or digital grid initiatives within utility environments.
- Knowledge of utility cybersecurity and secure operational data sharing practices.
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